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From: cmr@m2-net.UUCP (Chuck Rader)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,rec.humor.d
Subject: Re: Grading on a curve (was Re: cruelty to undergrads)
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Date: 20 Mar 88 10:30:40 GMT
References: <18618@topaz.rutgers.edu> <Mar.10.00.57.36.1988.22898@topaz.rutgers.edu> <706@l.cc.purdue.edu> <2527@pdn.UUCP> <503@nunki.usc.e
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Keywords: mean, variance, standard deviation
Summary: Maybe not "cruel", but certainly "mean"   ;-)

[Note that the only attempt at humor is in the summary line and follow-ups
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When I was an undergrad here at U of D in the late seventies, several 
Management Science instructors ran their students' test score through
a computer program to calculate the mean, variance and standard deviation.
The cutoffs for each grade were determined by the standard deviation, with
C centered on the mean.